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Most European finches fit this description. Song thrush and mistle thrush are the commonest. Redwing is a smaller cousin with a distinct red patch next to the wing edge.
Where did Mistle toe come from? Mistle toe came from Egland first than it went over to France.
Mistle Thrush - band - was created in 1993.
Mistle Thrush - band - ended in 2002.
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Mistle thrush do eat slugs. Their diet also consists of earthworms, insects, and wild fruits or berries. These birds are 10.5 inches in length are found in place like Britain or Scotland.
The collective nouns for thrushes are:a hermitage of thrushesa mutation of thrushesa rash of thrushes
a group of thrushes is called a "mutant"
The common name for the Turdus bird family is thrushes.
Thrushes frequently eat snails. They do this because snails are plentiful and they like them.
A lot of animals eat snails. song thrushes, mistle thrushes, redwings, ground beetles, hedgehogs, common shrew, parasitic nematode, marsh flies, slow worms, centipede, common newt, Bacillus Thurungiensis, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, starlings, blackbirds, fieldfare, gulls, owls, robins, toads, moles, common lizard, foxes, mice, rats, testacellid carnivorous slugs and glow worms.
They will eat the berries of the mistletoe plant, but not the mistletoe leaves itself. Mistle thrushes are known to be very territorial birds and will actually defend mistletoe bushes in their territory from other birds by chasing them away or pecking at them. It is especially common to see in winter, a mistle thrush pecking at the neck or wings of another bird two or three times bigger than itself until the bird flies away from the bushes.